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TIL that a Harvard School of Public Health study found that people who smoke weed tend to have lower levels of insulin, better cholesterol, and smaller waist circumferences than people who don’t smoke weed even after adjusting for things like age, race, alcohol or tobacco use, and activity levels.

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